Like LA Gear and Stirrup Pants

As a child of the '80s, I am intrigued by the idea of the Transformers movie set to come out next summer. However, they are not the Transformers that I remember from my childhood. My Transformers looked something like this. NOT like this.

This brought up a discussion in our household regarding other 80s toys/shows. Cartoons were soooo much different and what my students consider entertaining now, would never have appeared on the television I remember from my childhood. Here's what we DO remember (Warning: Some links contain sound):

• Duck Tales
• Popples
• Rainbow Brite
• My Little Pony
• Pound Puppies
• GI Joes
• Care Bears
• Fraggle Rock
• The Muppet Show
• Inspector Gadget
• Thundercats
• Heathcliff
• The Snorks

I could go on. I remember great television, but if I look back on those same television shows now, "cheesy" is the word that comes to mind. Nevertheless, I would watch reruns of these cartoons in a heartbeat.

Any other classic cartoons you can add to this list?

Oh, and I was also trying to find a link to The GlowWorms, but to no avail. Anybody who can find that link is my hero. You may begin......

....Now!